The Better Angels: Five Women Who Changed Civil War America

Plumb, Robert C.

ISBN 10: 1640122230 / ISBN 13: 9781640122239

Edité par Potomac Books, 2020

Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. N° de réf. du vendeur G1640122230I4N10

Synopsis :

Harriet Tubman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Clara Barton, Julia Ward Howe, and Sarah Josepha Hale came from backgrounds that ranged from abject enslavement to New York City's elite. Surmounting social and political obstacles, they emerged before and during the worst crisis in American history, the Civil War. Their actions became strands in a tapestry of courage, truth, and patriotism that influenced the lives of millions--and illuminated a new way forward for the nation.

In this collective biography, Robert C. Plumb traces these five remarkable women's awakenings to analyze how their experiences shaped their responses to the challenges, disappointments, and joys they encountered on their missions. Here is Tubman, fearless conductor on the Underground Railroad, alongside Stowe, the author who awakened the nation to the evils of slavery. Barton led an effort to provide medical supplies for field hospitals, and Union soldiers sang Howe's "Battle Hymn of the Republic" on the march. And, amid national catastrophe, Hale's campaign to make Thanksgiving a national holiday moved North and South toward reconciliation.

À propos des auteurs: Robert C. Plumb is a writer, historian, and former marketing executive for two Fortune 500 companies. He is the author of Your Brother in Arms: A Union Soldier's Odyssey and has written for the Montgomery County Historical Society's journal, the Washington Post, and the Washington Post Magazine. He lives outside Washington, DC.

Elisabeth Griffith is the author of In Her Own Right: The Life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : The Better Angels: Five Women Who Changed ...
Éditeur : Potomac Books
Date d'édition : 2020
Reliure : Hardcover
Etat : Very Good
Etat de la jaquette : No Jacket